Parliamentary questions

Child and Family Agency

Neasa Hourigan

505. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Education when she will publish the Tusla’s first quarter 2022 reduced day outcome report; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54786/22]

Education Policy

Neasa Hourigan

572. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Education if she will publish research into the use of a reduced school day conducted under the schools' inspectorate; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54787/22]

Traveller Education

Neasa Hourigan

573. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Education when she will launch the consultation on the Traveller Education Strategy; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54788/22]

Departmental Funding

Neasa Hourigan

574. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Education if she will consider extending the scheme to sponsor a cohort of third year educational psychologist trainees for the current academic year 2022/2023 to the next academic year 2023/2024; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54809/22]

Departmental Reviews

Neasa Hourigan

578. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Education when the review of the Education for Persons with Special Educational Needs Act 2004 is likely to be completed; when the review will be published; the stakeholders that were consulted as part of the review; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [54884/22]

Covid-19 Pandemic

Neasa Hourigan

713. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Social Protection further to Parliamentary Question No. 465 of 25 October 2022, if her attention has been drawn to the EU Strategic Framework on Health and Safety at Work 2021-2027 which stresses the importance of recognising Covid-19 as an occupational disease; if her attention has been drawn to the fact that 25 of the 27 EU member states have already recognised Covid-19 as an occupational disease, as per the EU Advisory Committee on Safety and Health at Work Agreement; if she plans to reconsider her position and ensure that Covid-19 is recognised as an occupational disease; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55293/22]

Assisted Decision-Making

Neasa Hourigan

880. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Justice further to Parliamentary Question No. 500 of 25 October 2022, the specific allocation in budget 2023 to the budget of the Courts Service for the implementation of the Assisted Decision Making (Capacity) Act 2015; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [55291/22]

Health Service Executive

Neasa Hourigan

918. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the total cost to Cork University Hospital of the removal of trees on its grounds in October 2022; the rationale for the removal of an entire row of 16 mature trees on 22 October 2022; if an independent arborist report was completed prior to these works; if the wood arising from the works was retained by CUH; if it was gifted or sold to the contractor; if so, if the wood was valued; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54251/22]

Vaccination Programme

Neasa Hourigan

1096. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health further to Parliamentary Question Nos. 529 of 20 September 2022 and 224 of 12 October 2022, where in the sequencing of HSE staff were members of the national HSE executive management team placed for first dose Covid-19 vaccines in 2021, as part of the national roll-out of the Covid-19 vaccine programme to HSE staff; the dates on which the national HSE executive management team were offered first dose vaccines as part of that national roll-out; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54883/22]

Disability Services

Neasa Hourigan

1097. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the number of children who were deemed non-complex and transferred to primary care as part of the progressing disability services for children and young people programme in CHO4; the number of these children who had received 1:1 therapeutic intervention prior to being transferred and the number of these children who had never received in-person therapeutic intervention prior to being transferred. [54885/22]

Disability Services

Neasa Hourigan

1098. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the number of children with disabilities, including neuro divergent children, who are under care or are awaiting diagnosis from primary care in CHO 4; the number of these children that are receiving in-person 1:1 therapy; and the number who are receiving in person group therapy. [54886/22]

Disability Services

Neasa Hourigan

1099. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the number of hours per discipline that are required by the caseload in respect to children with disabilities, including neuro divergent children, under care or awaiting diagnosis from primary care in CH0 4; and the number that are being delivered. [54887/22]

Medical Aids and Appliances

Neasa Hourigan

1100. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health when the national working group working on prescribing guidelines and lists for aids and appliances will finalise its work; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54889/22]

Mental Health Services

Neasa Hourigan

1204. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health if he will outline the definition of 'continuing care' mental health services, with particular reference to staff client ratios; if he will identify in each CHO the name and location of mental health residential services that are specifically designed as 'continuing care', excluding other forms of residential services such as 'high support hostels'; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [55417/22]

Greyhound Industry

Neasa Hourigan

1275. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the reason that a greyhound trainer (details supplied) who was issued with an exclusion order by Greyhound Racing Ireland effective from 1 July 2022, due to seven adverse analytical findings from greyhounds in the person's care, was allowed to have a dog named 'Well Met', which they own and train, in a race in Shelbourne Park on 17 September 2022, and was televised on Virgin Media; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54935/22]

Greyhound Industry

Neasa Hourigan

1276. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the number of non-coursing greyhounds that were microchipped and tattooed in Ireland from 2010 to date; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54936/22]

Greyhound Industry

Neasa Hourigan

323. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the percentage of the 4,859 samples taken from racing greyhounds at race meetings, sales meeting, private kennels and trails in 2021, that were obtained at race meetings; the percentage of the total samples that were fully analysed at a INAB accredited Laboratory and which prohibited substances were tested for; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54083/22]

Greyhound Industry

Neasa Hourigan

324. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine the way that the RCÉTS (Rásaíocht Con Éireann Traceability System) is enforced for racing greyhounds resident in Northern Ireland, who regularly travel south of the border to race at Irish tracks and return home immediately since greyhound kennels in Northern Ireland are outside the jurisdiction of Rásaíocht Con Éireann; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54084/22]

Greyhound Industry

Neasa Hourigan

325. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine if a licensed greyhound trainer with an adverse analytical finding retires and relinquishes their licence before their dog's adverse analytical finding comes before the control committee, if the finding is quashed and the trainer later reapplies for a trainer's licence, does the adverse analytical finding remain quashed or is it reinstated; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [54085/22]

Departmental Staff

Neasa Hourigan

176. Deputy Neasa Hourigan asked the Minister for Health the number of employees who are eligible to apply for the cycle to work scheme in his Department and the HSE in of the past five full calendar years from 2017 to 2021; and the number of employees who availed of the organisation's cycle to work scheme. [53653/22]